Can I read Battle's end : a Seminole football team revisited on EtoBox?

Battle's end : a Seminole football team revisited by CAROLINE ALEXANDER is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Battle's end : a Seminole football team revisited about?

A dozen years after the young Caroline Alexander - just back from Oxford University - tutored a group of Florida State football players, all from poor black families, she sought them out to discover what it had been like for them as scholarship athletes and what had become of them since. In the nine fascinating and moving interviews that make up <i>Battle's End</i> (the title is taken from F.S.U.'s fight song), she gives us their fates, which range from pro stardom to middle-class achievement to prison. Perhaps because Alexander herself felt like an outsider - "She's not white, she's English," her high school friends would say, to excuse her eccentricities - she had an instinctive sympathy for her nine students, all of them freshmen, all of them potential football stars, and all of them out of their depth in their roles as undergraduates: wooed by the university for their athletic skills but utterly unprepared by the public school system for the academic challenges they were suddenly faced with. That sympathy extended itself, and grew, when several years ago she went in search of these former students, hoping to find out not only how they had been doing but also what their college

Author

CAROLINE ALEXANDER

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679419013

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Lifestyle

Rating

3.44 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14